Meet Old Daddy – Heritage Oolong Tea-Master The legend of Da Hong Pao is so famous it inspires an animated sequence in 9 DRAGONS TEA. Twenty grams of Da Hong Pao tea, from the final harvest of the mother trees in Wuyishan, sold in a Hong Kong auction at about US$21,000, or US$32,600 per ounce.Oolong tea is the only tea-making tradition to have earned such a distinguished honor. China awarded Wuyishan’s Oolong tea-making technique a national cultural heritage symbol in 2006.One can of 20 grams of Da Hong Pao tea (made from the mother trees in Wuyishan) was enshrined in China’s National Museum in Beijing on October 10, 2007.Considered a national treasure in China, DA HONG PAO comes with a mystical origin story. About DA HONG PAO Oolong Teaĭa Hong Pao is the origin of Oolong tea, a semi-fermented tea. Discover why Dahongpao Oolong tea is the world’s most expensive tea. This particular Da Hong Pao is handcrafted by grandmaster Old Daddy, a heritage Oolong tea-maker whose family has been making tea for more than 300-years.

One of the six major tea types, Oolong, is a semi-fermented tea invented in Wuyishan, Fujian, China around the mid-1600s by the Buddhist monks. Looking for a one-of-kind premium DA HONG PAO Gift Box tea for someone who has everything?ĭid you know that DA HONG PAO (or Big Red Robe in Chinese) is the progenator of Oolong tea? Sold at auction at 75X more than the price of gold then, Da Hong Pao ranks the world’s #1 most expensive tea!

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